Sometimes the darkest stories are the ones that hold a light on what’s important.

Maybe one day I will write a whole analysis piece on this movie and add it here. I’ll touch on the main characters grapple with morality, acceptance, grief and even religion. And the multiple sub-messaging that sprouts from those topics, throughout. But for now, I will say that this movie DEEPLY affected me. I went on a journey, and I have to say that I recommend…

Honey Boy was a journey of acceptance. The acceptance of Trauma and how to overcome it. You see; trauma never leaves you. You own it, forever. But some can’t see the correlation of their personal past affliction and the way they act in real time. Because it’s easy to view pain as an everyday emotion. Like it’s a badge you wear. To honor what you’ve been through. But that badge always stays concealed. Until it isn’t...

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It’s amazing how a movie can possess the ability to tell such a compelling story with such little-to-subtle dialogue. Where the cinematography and the camera movements almost tell the story for you. With that being said; Portrait of a Lady on Fire is a french (foreign, subtitle-heavy) film following a painter in the eighteenth century, Marianne, who’s contracted to visit an isolated island. To paint a mystery person in secret. This mystery person is Héloïse. A soon-to-be married woman who’s…